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Bottle Candles

This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration to celebrate the festive seasons.

The class can describe the individual properties of shapes that can be used to make some different Christmas decorations and suggest how they can represent a specific theme.

Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration to celebrate the festive seasons

Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe how to produce a table top decoration, display posters to identify and describe some of the different colours, shapes and patterns that can be seen on decorative candles and templates to combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration for Christmas.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration for Christmas.

This lesson is part of a art and design scheme of work to get the children to investigate how to shape and combine different materials to produce a selection of decorations to celebrate the festive season. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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